China’s leading scientific institution has taken the wraps of QiMeng, an AI-powered system designed to accelerate chip design ...

He picked up an SBC with an Intel 486 DX4 CPU clocked at 100 MHz as well as a four-slot ISA backplane for expansion purposes. Mackrodt went with a Tseng Labs ET4000 for graphics and chose an ESS ...

A 1990-era 32-bit desktop CPU seems unpromising territory for this ... The first one introduces the project and shows the basic set-up. A 486 running NOPs may produce a pretty light show, but ...

The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery ... Senior kernel bod Ingo Molnar backed the move, adding that ancient CPU support has created messy “hardware emulation ...

RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel ... Moving forward, the minimum supported x86 CPU will now be the original Pentium (P5) or newer, requiring the presence of the Time Stamp ...

The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time ...

According to Molnar, most of the support for the old CPU is in the "math-emu" library. In total, i.e. for all parts of the kernel, 80 files would have to be changed if the 486 support were to be ...